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and potential of these activities is very great.
The stage has now beh
reached at which planning mst lead to further concrete action if the menentum
of the program is to be sustained.
The IAEA project has been a major factor in forcing the U.S.SJR. to
abandon an initial negative attitude and to follow the U. S. lead in a vorld-
wide atoms-for-peace plan. Further, the IAEA has maintained one import
aveme for peaceful discussion between the West and the East despite the return
of many aspects of the cold war.
It has thus served as a continuing
peaceful intentions of the United States.
1 of
The regional programs, partioplarly
in Asia and Europe, promise to put atomic energy at the service of major
political objectives -- in Asia, that of tieing the uncommitted countries to
those Asian countries more closely associated with the United States, inj Europe,
that of utilizing atomic energy to further European integration.
The Subs crisis
has high-lighted the potentialities of muclear energy in Europe.
The ex] pensive
bilateral program not only has demonstrated the willingness of the U. S. to
assist other nations and thus to bring those nations into closer relatio
hip
with us, but also serves as a principal means of developing mrtually bengficial
arrangements between foreign and U. 5. programs.
Our success in this refpect
is evident from Soviet imitation of the U. S. bilateral progran.
During the last three years of intense propaganda against nuclqar
weapons, and especially against testing, the U. S. position has been nord
acceptahle throughout the Free World because of the parallel efforts to te
the benefits of atomic energy.
Although it cannot be measured, this acc
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ment of the Atoms-for-Peace program is substantial.
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